A Drainage System That Maintains Its Original Course and Pattern

question 40

Multiple Choice

A drainage system that maintains its original course and pattern as it erodes into underlying horizontal beds of different structure than that in which the system evolved is called a(n)

• A)deranged pattern.
• B)discordant stream.
• C)annular pattern.
• D)yazoo stream.
• E)superposed stream.

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